Improvement in letter-clips and paper-binders combined



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Letter-Clips and Paper-Binders Combined. N0, 145,809, Patented Dec.23,l873.

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G. w. MCGILL. G Iips and Paper-Binders'ombined.

Letter Patented Dec. 23,1873.

inventar:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE w. MCGILL, OE NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN LETTER-CLIPS AND PAPER-BINDERS C OMBINED.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,809, dated December 23, 1873; application iiled August 22, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MOGILL, of the city and county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Letter-Clip and PaperrBinder Combined; anddo hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this specilication, in which- Figure l is a top View of my clip complete. Fig. 2 is a plan of its lower plate or jaw. Fig.

'3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the clip,

-and Fig. 9, a similar View of the same figure,

taken on its line z z.

The object of my invention consists in constructin g the ordinary spring letter-clip in such manner that it can, in addition to its ordinary purposes, be used for permanently binding papers inserted in it, and I do this in the manner hereinafter described.

In the drawing, A represents the upper plate or jaw of the clip, and B the lower. These plates are connected together by means ofthe spring-joint C. The upper plate A is provided with the openings of slots a a and the guides a a', and the lower plate B is provided with the dat spring l), which is attached to it by means of the rivets d d.

The manner in which the clip is operated is as follows: The clip is opened by pressing together the back portion of its plates A and B. The spring D is then raised by pressing its knob d up through the thumb-hole b in the under jaw of the clip. One of my T paperfasteners, g, Fig. 5, is then adjusted in each end of the spring D by inserting them in the arched slots d d, as shown in the drawing'. The spring D, being now released, clasps the heads of the paper-fasteners y g between it and the lower plate B in such manner as to hold them rigidly in an upright position, so that their points will enter the openings a a in the upper plate A on the clip being closed. The clip is now in condition for the reception ofthe papers to be bound.

To bind the papers, raise the npperjaw of the clip, and pass the papers into the clip over the tops of the fasteners until the edge ofthe papers strikes the guides a a on the under side of the upper jaw. Then, by releasing the jaws of the clip, the papers will be forced down over the fasteners. 'When the fasteners are full of papers, separate the jaws of the clip, bend apart the shanks of the fasteners down on the papers, and draw the latter thus bound from the clip. In withdrawing the papers, to facilitate the heads of the fasteners slipping out from under the spring D, raise the latter by pressing its knob d up through the thumbhole b in the lower jaw of the clip, as before described.

Having thus fully describedthe nature, construction, and operation of my invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A clip for holding or` binding papers, one plate or leaf of which is provided with an opening through which to operate a paperfastener retaining-spring, D, substantially as `and for the purpose specified.

GEORGE W. MCGILL. 

